Why Cholesterol May Not Be the Cause of Heart Disease with Dr. Aseem Malhotra

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Dr. Mark Hyman

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🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Cholesterol has become so confusing. The reality is, most of us have little understanding about the cholesterol levels in our blood and the whole topic is much more complicated than we previously thought. Many people still believe that eating cholesterol and fat, especially saturated fat, causes heart attacks and that taking statin drugs provides a powerful way to reduce your risk of heart attacks. But is this really true? My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is here to bust the cholesterol myth, and he is a cardiologist! Described as an inspiration by Jamie Oliver, internationally renowned Consultant Cardiologist and best-selling author of The Pioppi Diet, Dr. Aseem Malhotra has become one of the most influential and well-known health campaigners, and a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK. Today we talk about myths around heart health, and what it truly means to be heart healthy.

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0:00.0	So welcome, Dr. Melhocha. We're here at the Swiss Reh British Medical Journal Conference
0:09.3	about food for thought, the science, and the politics of obesity, which is end food,
0:16.4	which is really what you've been focusing on. You're kind of an extraordinary doctor.
0:20.6	You're a cardiologist from the UK. You're one of the leading voices there and fighting obesity
0:26.1	and disease and challenging the orthodoxy around cardiology, statins, fat, and you're taking
0:31.9	a lot of flak from it, but you're also out there, courageously, sort of breaking through the noise
0:37.7	and people are listening. And I read that you had been working with a member of parliament
0:43.5	and he had type two diabetes and you're able to get him off his British dietic association
0:49.7	guidelines and eat a higher fat lower carb diet and dramatically reversed his diabetes,
0:56.1	lowered his insulin. And he wrote a letter to the prime minister of England, which is pretty
1:00.8	amazing. How did you end up going from being a cardiologist that was trained at Oliol
1:08.3	cholesterol was the bad guy that statins were God's gift to mankind and that was shall be
1:13.5	leading a low fat diet to your perspective now, which is quite opposite, which is statins
1:18.3	aren't the miracle drug we thought they were and that saturated fat is not the enemy. According
1:23.6	to your British medical journal article that I read years ago, how did you come to that from the
1:28.6	traditional view? Mark, I think for me I had a realization many years ago, probably around
1:35.3	top 2010, having qualified as a doctor in 2001 and then decided specializing cardiology much later
1:43.7	I looked at basically what was happening with my patients. So I noticed more my observation was
1:48.8	more and more people coming in with multiple chronic diseases, more obesity. And at the same time
1:53.5	you're hearing the statistics in the media because 2004 was 14 years that the World Health Organization
2:00.3	announced that obesity has been a global problem, major issue. So we hadn't made much progress.
2:08.2	So I was trying to initially look into the root cause of that because ultimately I felt as a doctor
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